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Tuesday April 12, 2005 3:20 pm
RIAA and MPAA To Sue Internet2 File Swappers
It appears that students at universities that use the Internet2 ultra-high speed infrastructure have become targets of both the RIAA and MPAA. The RIAA has even gone so far as to say that they have 405 lawsuits against individuals at 18 different college campuses which they plan to file tomorrow. Those in question have been using a file-sharing application called i2hub, which allows for songs to be downloaded within 20 seconds and movies to be downloaded within five minutes. The MPAA hasn’t started to file any lawsuits yet, but they have made it known that they are watching.
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songs to be downloaded within 20 seconds and movies to be downloaded within five minutes
Sweet! I need to get this !
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RIAA: oh noes…they’re stealing the music we rightfully stole first
Us: I like music
RIAA: Heathens!
Music Artists: We still make the same amount of money…hotdamn
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What is it with the RIAA , they make a mint for free off music artists , then they go after the avg joe ...
It would be better to buy music direct off the band , by pass advertising costs, riaa hidden fees, marketing and extra crap ....
Its not like music artists make much per cd ... From reports on the net, its like 13 to 30 cents a music cd , bands actually get after the marketing and money mobs tax the rest
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poor suckers. they should have been using bell. internet2 will give in with 1 threat. Id like to see someone threaten a small company like bell.
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